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As I’ve written elsewhere (and often) we are living in a remarkable era. Our ruling class has re-invented itself as a technocracy that justifies its power by claiming moral superiority—and which dismisses challengers from below as morally deficient. We haven’t seen this kind of moral attack on working people since the salad years of the Temperance movement, another era when the well-off thought little of entering the public square, as does Eduardo Porter, to denounce the moral depravity of the working man.

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This is a great example of tension between the evangelical and the emergent.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/diabolized-america-haidt/

http://fredrikdeboer.com/2016/01/04/all-those-fallen-non-me-white-people/

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/benedict-option-for-progressives/

Responding to Beck’s new series. Part 1

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/zhoag/2016/01/04/do-millennials-really-want-a-cool-jesus/

http://www.groundmotive.net/2016/01/fight-club-and-christian-faith.html?m=1